Colin Farrell shares the emotional reason why he seeks long -term attention for his disabled son

Colin Farrell continues to use its platform to raise awareness about the complexities that children with disabilities and their parents face.

In a 2024 video interview with People, the actor “Banshees of Inisherin” spoke extensively about his son James, 21, who has an intellectual disability called Angelman syndrome, a rare neurogenetic condition that also affects his mobility.

Speaking to the Candis magazine of the United Kingdom for his May problem, Farrell shared that he and his ex, Kim Bordenave, are planning that James settled in a long -term care center.

“It’s complicated, some parents will say: ‘I want to take care of my son myself.’ And I respect that,” he told The Outlet, through the parade. “But my horror would be … What would happen if I have a heart attack tomorrow and, so God does not want it, James’s mother, Kim, has a car accident and she is also taken? And then James is alone. Then he is a state room and he goes where? We would have nothing to say.”

Finally, Farrell said, he and Bordenave expect to “find a place where we like where he can go now, while we are still alive and healthy, so that we can go to visit him, sometimes we can take it out.”

“We want you to find a place where you can have a complete and happy life, where you feel connected,” Farrell continued. “He needs a larger life that we can pay, having a sense of community with which he feels connected, going out to the truck every day and going to the supermarket and making purchases together, going to the beach, museums, movies, all those things. Only a connected life.”

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Last year, Farrell announced the launch of the Colin Farrell Foundation, which is “committed to transforming the lives of people and families who live with intellectual disabilities through education, consciousness, defense and innovative programs.”

Farrell said he was inspired by the deceased legend of Hollywood Paul Newman, who in 1988 built the “Hole in the Wall Gang” camp of Connecticut for children with serious diseases.

“Obviously I have a certain amount of media, having had a race in the cinema for more than 20 years,” Farrell to People told People last year. “And we still fight to find the support that James deserves and should legitimately have.”

In his Candis chat, the three -time Golden Globe winner acknowledged that the Foundation “was still in Baby Steps”, but said he hopes to commit more time now that his children are “in operation.”

In addition to James, Farrell shares a 15-year-old son, Henry, with his former Bachleda-Curús.